anyone done DMT?

[Metaltastic]

Interesting - however, the REM period is most definitely necessary for a full night's sleep, so it's not like it's all bad! (probably just a matter of percentage)

 

[GarethSE]

Interesting - however, the REM period is most definitely necessary for a full night's sleep, so it's not like it's all bad! (probably just a matter of percentage)

well yeah that's exactly it. depression is about imbalance between positive and negative, right? an imbalance of REM and non-REM sleep makes sense.

but yeah, there was loads of shit covered in that documentary but im far too tired to recall most of it right now
if i find it online ill link it up here, was a good watch

 

[TheWinterSnow]

i can just about direct the flow of my dreams, but i never go fully lucid, i have done a couple of times but it seemed pretty accidental.

watched an awesome documentary about dreams in psychology today. aparrently there's a link between REM sleep and depression. you know you go in cycles of REM Sleep/Non REM sleep, right? REM sleep is where you generally have dreams that are to do with more negative subjects. If you're woken up during REM sleep and are given a sheet of paper with loads of 3 letter things on it and asked to finish off the words, they'll generally be all to do with negative things. Non REM sleep is the opposite.
When suffering from depression, you skip the non REM sleep and spend far more time in REM

intruiging eh

When I get a deep sleep I usually have some state of lucid dreaming, and usually out of that maybe one every 5 will be completely lucid.

about the sleep and depression, thing, I have experienced quite the opposite. I was having a mode of insomnia for some time, sleeping about 14 hours during the day, up all night, forced myself to stay up all night and when I went to sleep that following night, I slept for 6 hours of intense deep sleep and woke up feeling refreshed (when normally it was 14 hours of light restless sleep and still feeling drained, but then not being able to go back to sleep), ever since then I have been dreaming more often, and finding my overall mood a hell of a lot better.

My dreams though as you said are based on negative things. What I made of it, is that dreams are your brains way of processing all the stuff stored on your short term memory, comprehending/coping with it, fragmenting it to put it into your long term memory. Generally the most common subject they deal with are negative. In my case, for some reason or another, my brain takes all the negative things, and escapes them by giving me "rewards" with things that I don't have when I am awake. Things that make me depressed because I don't have, it basically creates a world where I can have a moment living my ultimate dreams (no pun intended, I should say life long goals). So it turns these negative things into positive things.

The 4 things that make all men happy, booze, pussy, weed and money. Don't get it in life and your brain will give it to you in your sleep, with the added bonus that you can fly and teleport wherever you want to go. If all that happened in one day, holy fuck epic win

yea that kind of turned into a big rant there, but holy fuck do I love lucid dreams.

 

[darthjujuu]

epic thread.

i've never tripped, short of munching a single shroom stem, which didn't give me much except butterflies and a feeling of... "oh, NOW i see what all those explanations about tripping meant".

but I must say i've always been totally fascinated with the concept of DMT. way too scared to try it, primarily BECAUSE i'm so scared to try it. gonna be really interested to see how it went, gareth.

 

[DaWolf]

I used to get that shit ALL THE TIME... then it just kinda went away. I have'nt had it in years. I wonder what causes it?

I wrote it in that other thread, for me it was a puberty thing. Last time was 25 years ago but I still remember all the details because it was so creepy.

 

[slashvanyoung]

A Lucid Dream is defined as you being aware of who you are and all of your actions your consciousness has opened up, in most cases the reality of the fact that you are sleeping can be hazy depending on how intensely you think about it. If you don't really think about the fact that it might be a dream, it never slips your mind, either way its really cool to have total and complete control, when I realize that I am dreaming, I usually spend a good 10 minutes running a muck before I wake up.

I don't want to be nitpicking but that's just not true.

Lucid Dreaming is defined by being aware of the fact that you're dreaming. You can be very much aware of yourself and your actions without reaching "lucidity".

Ever woke up from a nightmare still being terrified because the dream felt so real? You are terrified because you were aware of yourself and the actions, but you didn't reach "lucidity" if you weren't aware of the fact you are dreaming.

Same thing with pleasuring dreams.

Most Lucid Dreams start out as normal dreams and you eventually realize you're dreaming (either triggered by certain events: "this can't be true, I must be dreaming" or it just happens).

If you never realize you're dreaming then it's just a more or less vivid, but "ordinary", dream.

1.1 WHAT IS LUCID DREAMING?

Lucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. The term was coined by Frederik van Eeden who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. Lucidity usually begins in the midst of a dream when the dreamer realizes that the experience is not occurring in physical reality, but is a dream. Often this realization is triggered by the dreamer noticing some impossible or unlikely occurrence in the dream, such as flying or meeting the deceased. Sometimes people become lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream; they just suddenly realize they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams (according to the research of LaBerge and colleagues, about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM (dreaming) sleep directly from an awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness.

The basic definition of lucid dreaming requires nothing more than becoming aware that you are dreaming. However, the quality of lucidity can vary greatly. When lucidity is at a high level, you are aware that everything experienced in the dream is occurring in your mind, that there is no real danger, and that you are asleep in bed and will awaken shortly. With low-level lucidity you may be aware to a certain extent that you are dreaming, perhaps enough to fly or alter what you are doing, but not enough to realize that the people are dream representations, or that you can suffer no physical damage, or that you are actually in bed.

http://www.lucidity.com

 

[Ashgarth]

It's even funny to realize you are dreaming, no matter what you do, it's just a dream!!
Some times I had lucid dreams and just thought, that dream sucks, I'd better wake up, and just wake up.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

It's even funny to realize you are dreaming, no matter what you do, it's just a dream!!
Some times I had lucid dreams and just thought, that dream sucks, I'd better wake up, and just wake up.

I more or less realize something isn't right, but never think too much about it. I will notice something weird that will take me back for a second, and I am like, this probably isn't real, this is probably a dream...eh oh well, and just go along with the flow.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

I lucid dream, I usually end up committing suicide to wake myself up. I laugh sometimes in my dreams when I realize that it won't work, so then I make myself fly around haha.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

^hahaha, another one of those things that won't work. When I fully realize that I am dreaming and the dream sucks ass, I just take the time to try to feel my physical body, imagine youself laying down in your bed, close your eyes and open them back up violently, always wakes me up